Doris Day

Doris Day (3 April 1922-13 May 2019) was an American actress and singer. Born Doris May Kappelhoff in Cincinnati, Ohio in 1922, she began a successful career as a big band singer in 1939, and, from 1947 to 1967, she recorded more than 650 songs. She began her Hollywood film career in 1948, and she was a motion picture actress for 20 years, although the changing attitudes towards sexuality during the 1960s led to critics and comics dubbing her "The World's Oldest Virgin" due to her morality. She became a prominent animal rights activist, despite being a lifelong Republican who had dated Ronald Reagan during the early 1960s. Day was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2004 by President George W. Bush, and she died in Carmel Valley Village, California in 2019 at the age of 97.